Red skin damage

[SirGeorge]

Hi,
This is the first time that I have asked for assistance...so, please be gentle with me.

For some reason, I am having a block with this image and I just cannot produce satisfactory results. The baby's skin has serious red blotchon, some of which I belive is natural, and some not - I have tried a variety of channel adjustments, apply image, curves and saturation adjustments but nothing seems to get me to where I need to be. So, I have thrown everything away and will start from scratch.

I have attached the image -if anyone would like to offer any advice...there is a pair of ears here waiting...

The original can viewed here..

http://www.digitalphotoconcept.com/u...estore_red.jpg

[Der_W]

I first used a a hue/saturation layer, sampled a red blotch and moved the "Hue"-slider up to +25, masked that with a saturation mask and finally created a new layer in "Hue" mode on top of that with 40% opacity, where I sampled a good looking skin color and painted over the red blotches.

http://www.abload.de/img/redskinl15x.jpg

Doing this more accurately will of course give way better results :-)

And you should as well dodge & burn the skin to unify the luminance.

[NYBOB]

Maybe Flora's Tutorial here may help you.It looks like the picture is on textured photo paper.You may want to correct that before you start your restoration.Do a search for texture removal.

Bob

[unimatrix001]

here is a link for the texture removal action
http://www.skeller.ch/ps/files/fft_action.zip

[Godmother]

easy fix: Don't beat up the baby before the shoot
sorry, couldn't help being completely unhelpful

x

[unimatrix001]

just a quick selective color used reds lowered the magenta and then added a colorbalance layer to even out the skin alittle

[mistermonday]

George, a Hue/Sat Adj Layer will take care of the red problem. This required an adjustment in the Reds, Yellows, and Magenta color ranges. The adjustments left the lips brownish looking but on swipe across them on the layer mask restored the orig color.
You have a lot of work to do on this image restoration - good luck.
Regards, Murray

[grannysdc]

I agree with Bob... take care of the Texture first

I used Image Analyzer (Free Here)

[Kraellin]

oh, you guys are just getting too damn good at this

[TommyO]

Originally Posted by Kraellin

oh, you guys are just getting too damn good at this

And Natalia is getting pretty funny . You must not have worked all weekend ?

I say this is difficult due to the many color variations in the face, made more difficult with the texture variations. You almost have to give up matching colors and determine what you will replace them with.... usually a better image's colors. In that case, I like the clone stamp tool in color blend mode. It blends the colors nicely without completely removing the original color, and maintains all the original texture.

After that step, I then treat it more like a traditional/simpler restoration and go after blemishes, repairs, texture, etc, etc. I will do a final color adjustment at the end on each are separately (saved selections & masks).

[0lBaldy]

FFT, brought in and blended in a tone-mapped layer, Hue/Saturation adjustments on forehead then on lower part of face to blend them a bit better, Imagenomic Noiseware (noise removal), Gradient Map (skin tones), Patch tool for the ink, dark spots, and to smooth things out, then painted hands

[KTG]

Originally Posted by Godmother

easy fix: Don't beat up the baby before the shoot
sorry, couldn't help being completely unhelpful

x

Real funny. A joke about child abuse.

[Godmother]

Originally Posted by KTG

Real funny. A joke about child abuse.

Yeah don't get me started on antisemitism, blacks or third world countries!

Wait... I'm having a déjà vu moment!

lol and no Tommy I didn't work this weekend was it that obvious?? I got some sun... there's the problem, I'm not used to it, it got my humor all dark and what not

xx

[TommyO]

OlBaldy,
Well, I think you hit the colors on the head ( oops, another joke). Really, who has seen babies with a tan, unless they live in California. You also did a better job with cleaning up the small stuff. Well done ol boy !! Now for the final answer.....who can guess this babies age ? We'll have the nurses doing their thing, the techies tryin' but they've never even held a babie., and we have some of the slowwest old women down there, but they cane really nail the age thing,.....if we can just get them here !!!!!!

[Cupcake]

I re-painted with the best skin color.

[0lBaldy]

Originally Posted by TommyO

OlBaldy,
Well, I think you hit the colors on the head ( oops, another joke). Really, who has seen babies with a tan, unless they live in California. You also did a better job with cleaning up the small stuff. Well done ol boy !! Now for the final answer.....who can guess this babies age ? We'll have the nurses doing their thing, the techies tryin' but they've never even held a babie., and we have some of the slowwest old women down there, but they cane really nail the age thing,.....if we can just get them here !!!!!!

Thanks Tommy

My final answer guess is... picture taken @ 8 days, 13 hours, 26 minuets and 21 seconds from birth....
Age of now 43 years, 5 months, 18 days, 34 minuets, 54 seconds
These guesses are subject to change and are by no means representative of any reality


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[Kraellin]

nice job, OB, and lol on the sign

[DCobb]

This is my try. I did remove the paper texture first.

dc

[brentmeder]

The first and quickest step would be to convert to CMYK (any profile will do) and apply a portion of the CYAN channel into the MAGENTA (blending one channel into another thus replacing some of the Magenta channel with the Cyan and effectively removing the exessive redness). Once completed it should be much easier to correct - you can convert back to RGB if desired. If desired you can restrict your channel blending with a fair degree of precision using your Blend If sliders.

Regards
Brent

[lucija]

this is my try. why must I write something??? my pictures speaks in 1000 words :-)

[brentmeder]

Good work on the skin colour